[...]es a part of the ="trms">world of the game.
the goal is to develop a set of ='strcls'>*coalescences='strcls'>* that fulfills a preassigned ="trms">mission.
whoever tells the best ="trms">story while completing the ="trms">mission wins.

you (tell ="trms">stories in which you) are free to='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•make the ="trms">world a better place
="lsts lst1">•hatch a nefarious scheme
="lsts lst1">•="trms">narrate a true ="trms">story

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]coalescence='lgc'>: the ="trms">historical force that arises from a transformative coming together of disparate groups, institutions, or things='lgc'>:
an unexpected connection ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a “="trms">historical force"='lgc'>[= something that might change the ="trms">world='lgc'>]
(parties might be='lgc'>: groups, institutions, ideas, identities, things, or beings. chili peppers and Thai cuisine; African rice producers and the Carolina coast; astrolabes, compasses, and plane tables)

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> ='lgc'>[contemplative mode of togetherness='lgc'>: (in Europe) coalescence انعقاد ='lgc'>=/= (in Middle East) confluence تلاقى ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transnationalism ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">internationalism ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> forms of alliance that are possible and needed that can be created ="trms">differentially with “trans-” ='lgc'>=/= “="trms">inter-“='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*coalescence is not meaningful nor possible in Middle East='qstn'>?='strcls'>*

example='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•not coalescence ="trms">story='lgc'>: to say that a cat and a goldfinch are both ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animals. or to ="trms">imagine a pet store that sells both
="lsts lst1">•coalescence ="trms">story='lgc'>: a cat-feeding fad that requires that cats eat nothing but goldfinches to give the cats a sleeker coat, while goldfinches become ="trms">seriously end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered because of the program ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='strcls'>*both cats and goldfinches are changed in the encounter='strcls'>*

coalescence can be unintentional, ="trms">seriously damage collaborator and the ="trms">world

="trms">missions could be='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•create a revolution
="lsts lst1">•corrupt a nation's government
="lsts lst1">•use a ="trms">natural resource to create havoc
="lsts lst1">•revitalize an ancient philosophy
="lsts lst1">•

="large lg22" stl="font-size:117%">
future-making cards='lgc'>:
icons of ="trms">historical ="trms">agency
they re="trms">present the ="trms">world through stereotypes and ="trms">symbols
used as an ideology about X (='lgc'>=/= as the real thing)

eternal essences as ="trms">natural objects or cultural ="trms">codes prevent theories to require things to change ='lgc'>=/= Global Futures conceptualization of time and change ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***forms of human and nonhuman possibility ="trms">imagined within current discussions of politics and culture='strcls'>***

='strcls'>*="trms">world power ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">world time='strcls'>*

time ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> evolutionary ladder ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> progressive ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> supportive trellises of flowering liberalism ='lgc'>+ critical charts of intensifying capitalism

coercive ="trms">international development
civilizational paternalism
free-="trms">market bullying

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='at'>#my theory (='lgc'>=/= reductionist, or psychological identification) on ="trms">specification of='lgc'>:
spider ='lgc'>=/= linear temporality
whale ='lgc'>=/= distinction of organism and environment
(='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>=/= “single point of view ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> subjective ="trms">phenomena”

="ppl">Nagel='lgc'>: the fact that an organism has conscious experience='lgc'> = there is something it is like to be that organism ='lgc'>{='lgc'>='lgc'>--> subjective character of experience='lgc'>}='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> analyzable in terms of any explanatory ="trms">system of functional states, or intentional states

Blade Runner's notion of “soul”='lgc'>: ascribed to robots or automata that behave like people though they experience nothing

physicalism='lgc'>: ="trms">phenomenological features must themselves be given a physical account

...if one ="trms">travels too far down the phylogenetic tree, people gradually shed their faith that there is experience at all

anyone who has spent some time in an enclosed space with an ex="trms">cited bat
anyone who has spent some time in an enclosed space with an ex="trms">cited whale
anyone who has spent some time in an enclosed space with an ex="trms">cited snake
anyone who has spent some time in an enclosed space with an ex="trms">cited jinn
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knows what it is to encounter a fundamentally alien form of life

="ppl">Nagel asking='lgc'>: we must consider whether any ="trms">method will permit us to ex="trms">trapolate استقراء to the inner life of the bat from our own case, and if not, what alternative ="trms">methods there may be for understanding the notion

“our own experience provides the basic ="trms">material for our ="trms">imagination, whose range is therefore limited” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Nagel's view remains secular and in the bounds of his disciplinary field. (="trms">religious studies, theology, ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal subjectivity studies, art of description, they can be helpful to describe things not in terms of the impressions they make on our senses)
="prgrph">-="ppl">Nagel is trying with the wrong ="trms">language at bats='lgc'>: “does it make sense to ask what my experiences are ‘really’ like as opposed to how they appear to me='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] objective processes can have a subjective ="trms">nature.”

what it would be like for me to behave as a bat behaves ='lgc'>=/= what it is like for a bat to be a bat


schematic conceptions of ="frds scrmbld">Eszter


="large lg6" stl="font-size:119%"> (old model of understanding='lgc'>:)
='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> stimulus (things sparkling) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> perception (hiting the senses) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> apprehension (mind aware without judgement) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> comprehension (psychological judgement about the manner of ="trms">situation) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowing ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">world of doing, in which “action” is='lgc'>: expected (mother attending the ="trms">child, free liberating the prisoners), commanded (soldier's hierarchy, job's duty), solved (engineer puzzling out a problem)


the things apprehended from a particular point of view (particular visual ="trms">phenomenology) are not connected to that point


Neobeobachtungen
moshahedat مشاهدت
نگاه جدید


='strcls'>*essence of the ="trms">internal ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> who is busy with this='qstn'>? (this will define the fate of ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal subjectivity)


='strcls'>*view from nowhere='strcls'>*='lgc'>: that their particular viewpoint is not part of the common reality (='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">sociology of ="trms">science)


X is Y
“is”='lgc'>: converge, a ="trms">technique of modeling (='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> ="trms">sync)
X, Y='lgc'>: two referential paths
we know how X is ="trms">supposed to be true


people are no told at an early age that ='strcls'>*all ="trms">matter is really energy='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list physicalism. then what you say abnout ‘energy’ is saying something about the ="trms">nature of reality)
physicalism='lgc'>: the hypothesis that a mental event is a physical event


someone with instinct ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis


(my feedbacks in ="nms">apass does not only apply to intentional mental events of each other)

(="ppl">Nagel asking for='lgc'>:) to devise a ="trms">method of expressing in objective terms much more than we can at ="trms">present ='lgc'>[but he is stuck in ='thdf'>the idea of='lgc'>] “a ="trms">phenomenology that is objective='strcls'>*

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with ="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia

Norway ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= (a breakable) illusion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that somebody is living it
green competition and ="trms">techno="trms">positivist hubris

="trms">question of topology (in dream)
(topology='lgc'>: those qualities that remain invariant after transformation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> persistent forms)

fantastic peasant

a piece of hanging cloth that sug="trms">gests ="trms">horrors to receptacle receiving eyes


="lsts lst1">•landscape ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sounds
="lsts lst1">•="trms">poems
="lsts lst1">•divisions in Norway (='lgc'><='lgc'>== second ="trms">world war)
="lsts lst1">•sami cultural disappearance
="lsts lst2">◦domestic violence
="lsts lst2">◦racism
="lsts lst2">◦refugee geopolitics
="lsts lst1">•seagull, fish, salmon farming
="lsts lst1">•="trms">interviews
="lsts lst1">•doom ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> delirium, murder, ="trms">hallucination, whispering,
="lsts lst1">•ruin (of signs)
="lsts lst1">•entropy (='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? emergence)
="lsts lst1">•

='strcls'>*affliction landscapes='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Leid='lgc'>: existence thriving in the wound ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> anticipation of oblivion

doom, ruin, entropy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> udyr (in norwegian u-='lgc'>: non- or bad, dyr='lgc'>: ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal) bad or corrupted ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal, non='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal, ="trms">monster, (rootless existence)

udyr (gate keepers creepers) ='lgc'><='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> div (defeated)



="large lg18" stl="font-size:134%"> ='lgc'>--performance='lgc'>--
rotating styles of='lgc'>: folkloric ballads, existential meditation, doomsday rant, elegiac oration, ="trms">children lullabies ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a singular blast of an account of a devastated space ='lgc'>--mobilizing='lgc'>='lgc'>--> legend, omen, song, myth, fairy tale, mutated war cry
='lgc'>[these potent signs are sneaking in the work “str="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger within,” it is not just a ="trms">historical dreamscape='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-the masked actors on ="trms">stage have taken a venom (becoming faceless engravers) to cross into the next level of temporal experience ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='qstn'>?='qstn'>?='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-muted rage and ecstasy indeterminacy ="trms">positioned as creeping towards the midnight of moving ='and'>& no longer moving... (as human='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> conflicting ways of being human; to acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge human ='and'>& violence;)


='lgc'>--="trms">travel='lgc'>--
visiting an alchemy of domestic proclamations (homes) with its own lethal con="trms">sortiums of drives (conversations); visiting sites of pure participation, the most savage, the most ="trms">modern, creating a ="trms">respond characterized as both ultra-alertness and in="trms">somnia of anticipation (acts by which the future can be nailed down) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> becoming a ='strcls'>*faceless engraver='strcls'>* (to remain fugitive and errant ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a course of action ="trms">supposing a discontinuity that must be overcome in order to define a ="trms">trajectory)
(="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia are capable of being) bodies fully engaged in perspectival ="trms">communication and battles of will, provided with ="trms">affect and capacities, capable of knowing ="trms">different things, types of ="trms">relations they entered into ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? poltergeist



='lgc'>--research='lgc'>--

="trms">trap ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> omen
lava ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ice

="lsts lst1">•unstable space
="lsts lst1">•process ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= performance ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= meeting ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{
="lsts lst2">◦dinner ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*transaction='strcls'>* (what did you learn from the dinner that you bring='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst2">◦invite (exchange='qstn'>?='qstn'>?='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst2">◦respect ='and'>& resist


now='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•something need to be named
="lsts lst1">•something need to be ="trms">staged
="lsts lst1">•(something need to be styled)


="frds scrmbld">Jassem's model='lgc'>:
you go through 5 minutes of hell then you arrive and unleash all your powers (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> talk about ="trms">questions, art, ="trms">history, self, etc.) then go there and perform together


contract of misunderstanding the “dance” (proposed by ="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia)
='lgc'>--='qstn'>?!='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">categorically dance is misunderstood, dinner is understood


the rawness and minimalism of the performance ='lgc'><='lgc'>--='qstn'>?!='lgc'>='lgc'>--> richness and ="trms">density of the research
(“='lgc'><='lgc'>--='qstn'>?!='lgc'>='lgc'>-->” ='lgc'>: ="trms">question of reference='qstn'>?)

(not to make the performance ="trms">mimetic)='qstn'>?
(but make it mnemonic ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> designed to aid the ="trms">memory)='qstn'>?
(but not anticipatory ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> omen)



for ="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•what is the sign of d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what is the sign of death='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what is the sign of transformation of perspective (='lgc'>=/= change of perspective)='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•


chronically unstable bodies (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mesopotamian)
="trms">anthropo="trms">morphism manifest in distorted corporeal forms and appendages ضميمه

a ="trms">world conceived of inherently volatile (bodies='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> site of subjectivity

intentional activation (='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">affective capacities (in...='qstn'>?)

="trms">trap ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> operate along scale

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entropy ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> atrophy
="lsts lst1">•entropy='lgc'>: energy no longer available for doing mechanical work (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> random ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? violence)
="lsts lst1">•atrophy='lgc'>: the ="trms">material, sensory labor of attending to loss, ='strcls'>***labor of looking at damage='strcls'>***
wasting away; withering; decrease in size caused by disuse
the feeling of being in the middle of something dirty, inevitable, watching it un="trms">fold
='lgc'>[deculturation='lgc'>: making a culture ‘previous'='lgc'>]
(='lgc'>~ the imapct of capitalism/colonialism on indigenous)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[nightmare image of ="trms">social entropy='lgc'>] destablizing effects of non-meaning (='lgc'>~ non='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal Udyr ="trms">monster) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (re="trms">presenting as) existential-cultural atrophy
='lgc'>[="nms">Cinderella doesn't experience atrophy after insult upon insult ='lgc'>=/= ="nms">Bambi's ="trms">memory='lgc'>]

transculturalism ='lgc'>~ “seeing oneself in the other”
='strcls'>*="trms">language and ="trms">materiality ="trms">interact within an unstable locus of ="trms">historicity='strcls'>* (="trms">specific ="trms">historical conditions) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a european model of conviviality='lgc'>]
='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="trms">modern globalism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reinventing of the new common culture /humanism ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>==> coalescence='lgc'>: meeting, ="trms">intermingling of ="trms">different people and ="trms">species and cultures and goods ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> could be damaging and unintentional, hurting the ="trms">world='lgc'>: decay, emergent, atrophy, new identities, crisis in ="trms">language, confusing boundaries, challenges of life,,,='lgc'>]

(o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins of bad feeling ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) looking at='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•damaged bodies
="lsts lst1">•damaged subjectivities
="lsts lst1">•damaged ="trms">communities
="lsts lst1">•damaged ="trms">relations ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Udyr ="trms">monster
="lsts lst1">•damaged ="trms">ecologies
="lsts lst1">•damaged ="trms">histories ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> in="trms">somnia
="lsts lst1">•

(='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia) is there (only) death at the end of entropy='qstn'>?
sequence of events from the point of view of plague ="trms">narrative
extermination ='lgc'>+ determination, laws of identity, repetition

the ="trms">material despair of a colonial capital ="trms">modern condition leading in high speed to the entropy of cultural-individual ethics, under the overwhelming weight of tangible misery ='lgc'>--(="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cognize the immediate ="trms">material urgency of the end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered subjectivity



='lgc'>--faceless='lgc'>--
non='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nonhuman ='lgc'>+ non='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> destabilizing effects
with their flexible plasticity, has an issue with appearance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> subjectivity's disas="trms">sociation from the ="trms">world
='lgc'>[in no (or which) calculus of assurance are they moving='qstn'>?='lgc'>]


ruined main body (of the performance)
ruin is (a ="trms">fictional being) adding additional variety to ="trms">technical being (frontier ="trms">technologies) of Norway
="prgrph">-obsolescence (and why not adjustment='qstn'>? ='lgc'>=/= extremist ="trms">position ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to emerge fanatically from the ruins)='lgc'>--(can we use our ="trms">imagination not for ="trms">world scale future speculation, and rather for small adjustment of this space='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-give expression and meaning to the ="trms">material culture


='lgc'>--landscape='lgc'>--
using it in the performance='lgc'>: a lens that refuses the abstraction of elements ="trms">relation in a vacuum (as its optics, not a Blickmaschin)
show us='lgc'>: big ="trms">stories take their form from seemingly minor ="trms">contingencies, a="trms">symmetrical encounters, and moments of indeterminacy

(with “str="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger within” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=='qstn'>? ‘desire within'='lgc'>]) are we at the space of ="trms">complain='qstn'>? ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- dis="trms">positions of Beschwerde
a form of protest ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (disenfranchized ="trms">language of) ='strcls'>*mutated rage='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> always innocent ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">agent of delivery
(protest part of) the proud and brutal ="trms">history of break-out syntax of civic ="trms">responsibility (='lgc'>=/= adjustment)

rage ='and'>& ecstasy

ruin ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> doom ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> rage ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> innocence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> delivery='lgc'>: performance


='lgc'>--ruin='lgc'>--
we can and should ='strcls'>***navigate the ruin='strcls'>***
(navigate ='lgc'>=/= asset-production)
="prgrph">-capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list (owning the ="trms">rhetoric of progress) telling us / teach us to ignore ruins (in the making)
="prgrph">-is there life in ruin='qstn'>? ='lgc'>--="ppl">Tsing='lgc'>='lgc'>--> place of unsettled identities, ='strcls'>*in it each of us become ourselves with the help of a less-than ideal collaboration='strcls'>*

bring your curiosity


="large lg14" stl="font-size:104%"> contaminated diversity ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= doom='lgc'>: a form of missing that which is contaminated, (an ="trms">affect typical of ="nms">Tehran,) one has lost the pulse of the ="trms">world='lgc'>]
(hard to clasify)
='strcls'>*cultures and ="trms">species that don't adjust well to dist="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbance='strcls'>* (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- we shouldn't lose hope on them)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**precarious survival='strcls'>** ='lgc'>: in order to live you need help, always subject to the indeterminacy of self and other's transformations (='lgc'>=/= MacGyver selfish gene ="trms">story) ='lgc'>[="frds">Sina and ="frds scrmbld">Agnes hiking in the need for sticks to walk='lgc'>], ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='qstn'>? “kinds” and “types” emerge; and you need multiple forms of curiosity


='strcls'>*neoclassical economics (which is today's economic model) (='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="trms">modern economy)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•theory of supply and ="trms">demand
="lsts lst1">•theory of rational individual choice ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> maximize utility and profit (='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="trms">methodological individuation='lgc'>: “motivation/action of individual ="trms">agents ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">causal accounts of ="trms">social”)
='strcls'>*population genetics (study of evolution from the genetics point of view) (='lgc'><='lgc'>== evolutionary synthesis ='lgc'>+ ="trms">modern biology)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•adaptation
="lsts lst1">•speciation
="lsts lst1">•population
="lsts lst1">•structure
='lgc'>}='lgc'>==='lgc'>{formed in late 19th century and came to power in early 20th century to redefine ="trms">modern knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “survival='lgc'> = fighting for oneself against others” (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> The 100 TV series popular fantasies of survival ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ what does it take to stay alive='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ='strcls'>**conquest and expansion='strcls'>** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> selfish gene (theory of individuals not effected by encounters, they use encounters, but not changed by them)
='lgc'>=/= ‘what does it take to stay alive’ could be a ='strcls'>*="trms">matter of finding livable collaborations='strcls'>*='lgc'> = ='strcls'>*working across ="trms">difference='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> we don't know who we are, until we ="trms">interact across ="trms">difference at multiple levels ='lgc'>--="ppl">Tsing='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**identities are formed in ="trms">histories of encounters='strcls'>**

neoclassical economics theories='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•supply and ="trms">demand
="lsts lst1">•rational individual choice ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> maximize utility and profit (='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="trms">methodological individuation='lgc'>: “motivation/action of individual ="trms">agents ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">causal accounts of ="trms">social”)
="prgrph">-

dreams of ="trms">modernity='lgc'>: mobilization of a agricultural cooperative movement ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> industrial disengagement ='lgc'>+ intimacy of family's farm


slow dist="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbance

mode of inquiry='lgc'>: take small details and ask big ="trms">questions with them

living in ruins
='lgc'>--="frds scrmbld">Jassem='lgc'>='lgc'>--> maybe is a nightmare ="trms">story
='lgc'>--="ppl">Tsing='lgc'>='lgc'>--> maybe is a mushroom ="trms">story
(capital/genocide/...)
(destroyed by...)

rats, rabbits, and algae seaweed

your abilites to nurture and tell ="trms">stories ='lgc'>--tales='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*life emerging from damaged human comunities='strcls'>* (and blasted landscapes) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> not exactly a ="trms">story of hope (='lgc'>=/= towards a better sleep, the “less you know better you sleep” kind of ="trms">story), ="trms">stories of displacement and losses (due to war and concentration of wealth in our time)
='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*big ="trms">narrative of progress='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: a single ="trms">world ="trms">trajectory and time ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*time of surprise='strcls'>*='lgc'>] of which “everybody takes part” (='strcls'>*moving forward together='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#sci-fi series of transnational crew on a spaceship) ...powerful ways of knowing the ="trms">world ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>==='qstn'>?='lgc'>== renaissance='lgc'>] (='lgc'>--my ="nms">ajayeb project is about those ways of knowing, ="trms">stories of what sets the ="trms">world on motion, such as universalism ='and'>& cultural relativism)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*building ="trms">communal ="trms">agenda='strcls'>* ='lgc'>~ (dream of) transculturalism ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ blend ="trms">communal identities='lgc'>] (='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia's Norway='lgc'>: humans get richer, more efficient, and more make the ="trms">natural ="trms">world work for them), is given to us by “men” (that we don't have to follow)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]progress='lgc'>: ="trms">anthropogentic landscapes haunted by ="trms">imagined futures

='lgc'>--or='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (you might) leave your home and run into a vast new problem

stability is a privilege

='lgc'>[what is='qstn'>?='lgc'>] the future of your dreams
='lgc'>[what are='qstn'>?='lgc'>] the nunhumans worth noticing

="trms">species that signal “i am available”


='lgc'>[capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list accumulations ='lgc'>+ insult upon insult upon insult ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='lgc'>] diversity

diversity='lgc'>: (in Germany, considered archaic and chaotic) collateral damage of improvement, necessory victim of progress


fire, herding, farming,
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> creating niches for hunting and forging
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> messing with (="trms">nature)


="prgrph">-the ="trms">question of how much (of human, neighbor, etc.) dist="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbance we can live with
="prgrph">-what is to consider other's (="trms">species, peasant, etc.) ways of life-making ="trms">trajectories along ours='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">world-making (requires this)='lgc'>]


the ="trms">question of niche-making
="prgrph">-niches ="trms">interact with one another

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]alienation='lgc'>: the ability to stand alone (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Nietzschean ethics ='lgc'>=/= niche-making entanglement ='strcls'>*always imperfect and continent='strcls'>*)
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (people, things, and ="trms">species become) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]assets='lgc'>: mobiles that can be moved from their life="trms">worlds to be exchanged elsewhere='lgc'>--everything else is waste (='lgc'>=/= eating others)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> progress='lgc'>: search for assets ='lgc'>=/= art='lgc'>: unalienated critical work, ='strcls'>***reciprocal capture='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> tumble ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= transcend one another, or bow down, ="trms">question of ="trms">integration='lgc'>]

='strcls'>*niche='lgc'>: adjusted timing ='and'>& quality, small ="trms">stories, convexe,
='lgc'>=/= house ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> has foundation
='lgc'>=/= your monument
='lgc'>=/= building

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='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
="trms">ecologies of nothingness='strcls'>***

premise of my ="trms">lecture='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*all places are polluted and difficult='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•‘abuse of ="trms">language’ is every time you open your mouth
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">social always always in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes nonhuman
="lsts lst1">•there is no encounter without the contractual

..and i can't tell grave from garden

="prgrph">-perhaps i have been unconsciously working on the ="trms">question of “why are we here='qstn'>?” or “am i here='qstn'>?”
="prgrph">-cartographies of thinking='lgc'>--&='lgc'>--how i am inscribed in them
(itineraries i am stuck with)
going to a place ='lgc'>=/= embrace it as a site
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> always i have a resistance to where i am='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the ways we lose a sense of place ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> displacement
="lsts lst1">•the ways we experience livability through places
(has to do with my own broken/corrupt/fubar link with ="trms">ancestry ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- only “your people” can show you how to ="trms">imagine it, the center/home)

transportation ='lgc'>--='lgc'>{traumatic ='and'>& distruptive='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transformation

time of surprise ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> non='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal (udyr)
="prgrph">-="trms">nature-culture patchworks
="prgrph">-perspectival and performative
="prgrph">-contaminative and ="trms">communicative
='strcls'>*fantastic and real vision='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-things that don't fit together, yet, there ='strcls'>*are='strcls'>* together ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">sym (='lgc'>=/= bifurcation) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> awkward ="trms">relations ='and'>& ="trms">interrupting ="trms">categories
="lsts lst1">•(necrophobia)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">schizophrenic ="trms">relations to...
="lsts lst1">•deconstruction of ="trms">presence...

(for you there is also) ='strcls'>***many fantastically large set of contexts within which to say “yes”='strcls'>***

(="ppl">Tsing's) ='strcls'>*contaminated diversity='strcls'>* (complicated, ugly, humbling) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ‘end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered ="trms">species’ and cultures (innocent victims of human progress)='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-implicates survivors in ="trms">histories of greed, damage, and destruction ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cacophony of troubled ="trms">stories ='lgc'>--might='lgc'>='lgc'>--> help to learn something about the cultural and ="trms">natural ="trms">histories at stake
="prgrph">-difficult to ="trms">love and relate

joint organs ='lgc'>{part plant, part fungus='lgc'>} ="trms">inter="trms">species phisiology ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*mushroom='strcls'>*

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='strcls'>*tumble='lgc'>: falll down as if collapsing (from up="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right ="trms">position), thrown together (in mess, and very difficult to rewind)
='lgc'>=/= transcend
='lgc'>=/= entropy

="lsts lst1">•bodies tumble into bodies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">monsters
="lsts lst1">•="trms">histories tumble into ="trms">histories ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ghosts
="lsts lst1">•="trms">stories tumble into ="trms">stories ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures

(="trms">material life="trms">world tumble into) forests tumble into ="trms">fables tumble into politics tumble into ...

='strcls'>***dispersal ='and'>& entanglement='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>{
="lsts lst1">•dispersal ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> shattered, torn, broken, dispersed, made p="trms">articulate, whisked away on the breeze (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> smoke, Urashima turning into particls, dud to cough with سرفه sorfe) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> time is crossed out ويرانه
="lsts lst1">•entanglement ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> patchwork, care, weave, (together, reconnected, acknowledging care and entanglement) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="frds scrmbld">Kirsten='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> time of the hut کاشانه
='lgc'>} “&” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='qstn'>?='qstn'>?='qstn'>? ="trms">stories='qstn'>? reciprocal capture ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> immanent new modes of existing (in damage and loss) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="frds">Sina='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> time (and things) are diffractivelly/="trms">differentially constituted


as humans we also have these qualities='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•our plasticity
="lsts lst1">•our ability to be ="trms">affected
="lsts lst1">•our ability to hybridize


(="trms">modern human activity, burning man insults ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">monsters='lgc'>: ="nms">ajayeb-e ="trms">wonders of ="trms">symbiosis (threats of ="trms">ecological disruption, multi="trms">species entanglement)
(="ppl">Tsing, a useful figure to think with ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>)
="lsts lst1">•they help to pay attention to (ancient ="trms">chimeric) entanglement
="lsts lst1">•they point to ="trms">monstrosity of man
="lsts lst1">•they point toward life's ="trms">symbiotic entanglement across bodies
="trms">monsters='lgc'>: ="trms">nature suddenly unfamiliar (acting like udyr)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]ghosts='lgc'>: phantoms inside ='lgc'>[your='lgc'>] (="trms">natural) ="trms">history, layered temporalities of living and dying (='lgc'>==shape='lgc'>='lgc'>==> landscapes), creatures of ambivalent entanglement ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (help us ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read) ='strcls'>*life's enmeshment in landscapes='strcls'>*


suffering from the ill of another ="trms">species (or people)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•bacteria inside (='lgc'><='lgc'>== pollution, radiation)
="lsts lst1">•people next door (='lgc'><='lgc'>== war, politics)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this is the condition of ="trms">anthropo="trms">cene entanglement



="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> ='lgc'>[productive ="trms">horror of our civil performance='lgc'>--="frds scrmbld">Kirsten, ="frds">Sina, ="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia:='lgc'>]

temporalities of ruin, body, optics
                   |     |     |
       matrix of rage, ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure, desire

rage (violently ="trms">affective contact)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ghosts='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia's performance ='lgc'>~ “big ="trms">story"='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>**="trms">histories tumbled into ="trms">histories='strcls'>** (“ghosts” ='lgc'><='lgc'>== bad death ='lgc'><='lgc'>== settler colonialism ='lgc'>+ expansive capitalism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they brought with them a peculiar kind of time='lgc'>: looking straight ahead to the future ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> optimization ='and'>& salvation of a ='strcls'>*single ="trms">past='strcls'>*='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ruthless ambition ='and'>& ='lgc'>[="trms">modernity's time:='lgc'>] metronomic ="trms">synchrony 🕓)
="lsts lst1">•animating feral and partial connections
="lsts lst1">•remind us of an ='strcls'>*impossible ="trms">present='strcls'>* (that we live in)
='strcls'>* (="trms">embodied) ="trms">contingency, a="trms">symmetry, indeterminacy ='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•hauntings (are not im="trms">material!) ='lgc'>: presumptive absence (presumed in the absence)

="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">monsters='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Kirsten's objects ='lgc'>~ small ="trms">stories, little niches with ghostly c="trms">ontours (like a car's tire) ='lgc'>~ things growing in abundant='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>**bodies tumbled into bodies='strcls'>** (“="trms">monsters” ='lgc'><='lgc'>== assets and wastes (='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal entanglement with the burning man) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- bad ="trms">symbiosis)
='strcls'>* un="trms">spectacular afterlife of discarded things ='strcls'>* (debris of capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list waste)
="lsts lst1">•weaving magical figures, conjuring ="trms">fictions
="lsts lst1">•constant speculation, that are fed and touched, reparative and tender
="lsts lst1">•textured, formful, colorful
='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure='lgc'>: things that evoke or capture feelings and ="trms">responses ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure out ="trms">relational ="trms">responses

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> desire (super="trms">position)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> optics='lgc'>: (a form of distance) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds">Sina's ="trms">stories ='lgc'>~ super="trms">position ='lgc'>[="trms">different scales='lgc'>] of dispersed times ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ unruly temporalities='lgc'>], multiple practice of knowing smallbig spacetime ="trms">mattering='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>**="trms">positions tumbled into ="trms">positions='strcls'>** (tumbled into politics='lgc'>: some ="trms">instruments of seeing producing perspectives are more guilty than others)
='strcls'>* (dis="trms">embodied) multiple practices of knowing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> landscapes='lgc'>: [...]